A Franco banquet forms the backbone of 'La cena', the new comedy by Manuel Gómez Pereira

Manuel Gómez Pereira rueda en distintas localizaciones de Valencia, Madrid y Canarias ‘La cena’, una comedia ambientada en una celebración franquista dos semanas después del fin de la Guerra Civil con guion de Joaquín Oristrell, Yolanda García Serrano y Manuel Gómez Pereira.

Producida por Cristóbal García desde The Terrace Films, Lina Badenes desde Turanga Films, Roberto Butragueño desde Sidereal Cinema, Entre Medina y Genaro AIE y Halley Production, Dinner está siendo rodada, en palabras de Gómez Pereira, with a "very attractive cinematographic time" and an "exercise of precision" typical of comedy: "The action takes place in one day, from eight in the morning until dawn. And as time passes, the order becomes a time bomb; there will be no turning back."

Dinner is set in the day April 15, 1939, date on which, two weeks after the end of the Civil War, Franco He proposes celebrating the victory with a dinner with all his generals. What he doesn't know, the synopsis says, is that dinner will be prepared by some Republican cooks who are facing their last chance to flee the country.

Mario Casas and Alberto San Juan They lead a choral cast that is completed by Asier Etxeandia, Nora Hernández, Óscar Lasarte, Martín Páez, Elvira Mínguez, Carlos Serrano, Carmen Balagué, Eva Ugarte and Antonio Resines, among others. Another of the main protagonists will be the location in which it is set. Dinner: he Hotel Palace. According to Manuel Gómez Pereira, the space "is a setting that is as attractive as it is hyper-realistic, where the viewer is immersed in the unstoppable adventures of these characters who move in a Madrid in the immediate post-war period. The Palace Hotel as the center of the film's action promises a powerful visual work where the light insistently nuances joy, fear and violence. A place where it seems that peace has been declared, but fear is still present. In this small post-war Spanish world many elements of the conflict.”

'The dinner' has the participation of RTVE, Movistar Plus+ and Crea SGR, in association with Film Factory Entertainment. The film, which benefits from financing from the Ministry of Culture, Institut Valencià de Cultura and Madrid City Council, will arrive in theaters thanks to Against the current.